The Washington Post has written an editorial about the Plame affair that is so on-target, it reminds all conservatives just how great newspapers can be. Much like Victoria Toensing mentioned here earlier,whose commentaries the Post published, the Post distributed criticism to all parties involved. Regarding Joseph Wilson, the Post said:
A bipartisan investigation by the Senate intelligence committee subsequently established that all of [Wilson’s] claims were false -- and that Mr. Wilson was recommended for the Niger trip by Ms. Plame, his wife. When this fact, along with Ms. Plame's name, was disclosed in a column by Robert D. Novak, Mr. Wilson advanced yet another sensational charge: that his wife was a covert CIA operative and that senior White House officials had orchestrated the leak of her name to destroy her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson. . . The trial has provided convincing evidence that there was no conspiracy to punish Mr. Wilson by leaking Ms. Plame's identity -- and no evidence that she was, in fact, covert.
More importantly, the Post reminded us what outstanding investigative journalism looks like. The Post’s exposure of conditions at Walter Reed Army Hospital’s outpatient treatment center was so thorough and damning that Bush had no choice but to fire almost everyone involved, right up to Army Secretary (his Defense Secretary had already departed).
Journalism should not be about going left, it should be about getting it right.
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